digitalmars.D - Suggestion for another operator: slice assign

I find myself doing the following sometimes:
T[] array = <something>;
if(<whatever) {
Process(array[0]);
array = array[1..length];
}
Which made me think that a slice-assign operator would make a lot of
sense; it would be a good parallel with += *= and the rest. What I
imagined was something like:
array =[1..length];
Which isn't 100% consistent with the others, of course, since the
operator comes AFTER the =, but it's close.
Thoughts?